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During the Nazi German occupation of Poland during World War II, a system of camps of various kinds was established across the country. These included: Nazi Germany, or the Third Reich, commonly refers to Germany in the years 1933–1945, when it was under the firm control of the totalitarian and fascist ideology of the Nazi Party, with the Führer Adolf Hitler as dictator. ...
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Extermination camps
The Nazis established six extermination camps (Vernichtungslager) in Poland. The primary intention of these camps was the extermination of the Jews from all the countries occupied by the Germans, except the Soviet Union (Soviet Jews were generally killed on the spot). Many non-Jewish Poles and other prisoners of the Nazis were also killed in these camps. Majdanek - crematorium Extermination camp (German Vernichtungslager) was the term applied to a group of camps set up by Nazi Germany during World War II for the express purpose of killing the Jews of Europe, although members of some other groups whom the Nazis wished to exterminate, such as Roma (Gypsies...
These camps were:
Belzec was the first of the Nazi German extermination camps created for implementing Operation Reinhard during the Holocaust. ...
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Warsaw (Polish: Warszawa, see also other names, in full The Capital City of Warsaw, Polish: Miasto Stołeczne Warszawa) is the capital of Poland and its largest city. ...
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Sobibór was a Nazi extermination camp that was part of Operation Reinhard. ...
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Warsaw (Polish: Warszawa, see also other names, in full The Capital City of Warsaw, Polish: Miasto Stołeczne Warszawa) is the capital of Poland and its largest city. ...
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Lublin (pronounce: [lublin]) is the biggest city in eastern Poland and the capital of Lublin Voivodship with a population of 355,954 (2004). ...
Concentration camps adjoining extermination camps There were also concentration camps at Auschwitz-Birkenau, Majdenek and Treblinka, distinct from the adjoining extermination camps. An estimated 70,000-200,000 non-Jewish Poles died at Auschwitz-Birkenau.
Concentration camps A concentration camp (Konzentrationslager, KL or KZ) was a camp which was designed to exploit the labour of prisoners, rather than to exterminate them, although the majority of prisoners eventually died from execution, starvation, disease or exhaustion. In Germany before 1939, concentration camps mainly housed Jews, political enemies of the Nazi regime, and other categories such as homosexual men. A concentration camp is a large detention center created for political opponents, aliens, specific ethnic or religious groups, civilians of a critical war-zone, or other groups of people, often during a war. ...
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There were a number of concentration camps in Poland. They housed Jews, partly as transit points to the extermination camps, and partly so that the Jews could be worked to death. This policy was called Vernichtung durch Arbeit (annihilation through work). Large numbers of non-Jewish Poles were also imprisoned in these camps, as were various prisoners from other countries.
The major concentration camps in Poland were:
Plaszów is the camp near Kraków made famous in the book Schindler's List. The title given to this article is incorrect due to technical limitations. ...
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Stutthof, commonly refers to the Stutthof concentration camp complex built near the town of Sztutowo, by Nazi Germany during World War II. Rarely, it may refer to the Polish town of Sztutowo (called by the Germans Stutthof) itself. ...
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Działdowo is a town in north-central Poland with 20,700 inhabitants (1995). ...
Działdowo is a town in north-central Poland with 20,700 inhabitants (1995). ...
Warsaw concentration camp (German Konzetrazionslager Warschau, short KL Warschau) was the German concentration camp in Warsaw, in the ruins of the Warsaw Ghetto. ...
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Another camp, Gross-Rosen (now Rogoźnica) was in German Silesia (now part of Poland), but some of its satellite camps (Aussenlager) to which prisoners were sent to work on various projects, were in Poland. There were also several other concentration camps at: KL Gross-Rosen was a German concentration camp, located in Gross-Rosen. ...
Poniatowa is a town in Poland. ...
Location of Skarzysko-Kamienna Skarżysko-Kamienna - a town in northern Swietokrzyskie Voivodship (Poland) by Kamienna river, to the north of Swietokrzyskie Mountains; one of the voivodships major towns. ...
Starachowice is a town in central Poland with 57,500 inhabitants (1995). ...
Labour camps The Germans pressed large numbers of Poles into forced labour. These labourers were confined in camps known in German as Polenlager, such as Gorzyce-Gorzyczki, both in Germany and in Poland. One estimate is that there were about 440 of these camps, where at least 1.5 million Poles were set to hard labour. Many of these camps were transient in nature, being opened and closed according to the labour needs of the occupiers. Gorzyce-Gorzyczki, (Silesian Voivodship , gmina Gorzyce, powiat Wodzisławski) is the location of a Nazi concentration camp of Polenlager type, i. ...
Many of the 400,000 Polish prisoners of war captured by Germans during the 1939 invasion of Poland were also confined in these camps, although many of them were also sent as forced labourers in Germany. 1939 was a common year starting on Sunday (link will take you to calendar). ...
Several types of labor camps were distinguished by German bureaucracy.
- Arbeitslager was general-purpose term for labor camps in the direct sense.
- Gemeinschaftslager was a work camp for civilians.
- Arbeitserziehungslager were training labor camps, where the inmates were held for several weeks.
- Strafarbeitslager were punitive labor camps, originally created as such, as well as based on prisons.
- The term Zwangsarbeitslager is translated as forced labor camp.
Prisoner of war camps - Main article: List of German WWII POW camps
The Germans established several camps for prisoners of war (POWs) from the western Allied countries in territory which before 1939 had been part of Poland. There was a major POW camp at Torun (Thorn) and another at Lodz, plus a number of smaller ones. Many prisoners of war from the Soviet Union were also brought to Poland, where most of them died in labour camps. The Germans did not recognise Soviets as POWs and several million of them died in German hands. Part of Lists of Prisoner-of-War Camps section in the Prisoner-of-war camp article. ...
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. Łódź (pronunciation: ) is the second-largest city (population 776,297 in 2004) of Poland, located in the centre of the country. ...
Relief for victims The Polish government has issued a number of decrees, periodically updated (see [1] and [2]), providing for the surviving Polish victims of wartime (and post-war) repression, and has produced lists of the various camps where Poles (defined both as citizens of Poland regardless of ethnicity, and persons of Polish ethnicity of other citizenship) were detained either by the Nazis or by the Soviets.
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Polish areas annexed by Nazi Germany The war against Poland was from the start intended as a fulfillment of the plan described by Hitler in his book Mein Kampf. The main axis of the plan was that all of Eastern Europe should become the source of the power for Germany...
Łapanka (literally Catching game) was a nick-name applied to the German policy in occupied Poland during World War II. In łapankas the forces of SS, Wehrmacht and Gestapo rounded up civilians on the streets of Polish cities and took all of them as prisoners. ...
Warsaw concentration camp (German Konzetrazionslager Warschau, short KL Warschau) was the German concentration camp in Warsaw, in the ruins of the Warsaw Ghetto. ...
External references - [1]. Polish Council of Ministers decree on combatants and repressed (http://www.abc.com.pl/serwis/du/1997/0950.htm)
- [2]. Polish Council of Ministers decree on definition of detention sites (http://www.abc.com.pl/serwis/du/2001/1154.htm)
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